Academic medical centers such as Vanderbilt and the University of Minnesota have created centers to train learning health system scientistsand coordinate research projects. Now the University of California San Diego School of Medicine will establish a Center for Learning Health Systems Science to provide instructional and experiential learning opportunities for clinicians and researchers in...

Stephen Dorner, MD, chief clinical and innovation officer of Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home, toldBecker'sthat the more home-based care models are scaled, the more opportunity there is to move the needle and flatten the curve of healthcare costs in the U.S. Boston-based Mass General Brigham, which runs one of the largest home hospital programs in the country, has had more than...

Hospitals and insurers are racing to find new artificial intelligence tools to give them an edge in billing and processing their part of the $4 trillion in medical expenses Americans accrue each year. As one of the largest parts of the U.S. economy undergoes perhaps its biggest transition in decades, billions of dollars are at stake — not only for health care providers and insurers, but also...

The hype around healthcare artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch, but most doctors are holding back from trying it out in their medical practice, for now. A recent survey by Elation Health found that 67% of primary care physicians have not yet tried an AI-powered medical scribe solution and are looking to electronic health record vendors to guide them to the...

Approximately half of Cerner's Millennium customers, focused on automating hospitals much like Epic, are expected to transition to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by February, Larry Ellison, chief technology officer of Oracle, said in a Dec. 11 earnings call.

According to hospitals and health system C-suite leaders, 2024 will be the year of artificial intelligence integration, patient engagement 2.0 and regulation for the healthcare industry. Generative AI will revolutionize healthcare by integrating with a range of applications and we will see a greater focus on AI governance. Healthcare systems will also revisit the first generation of engagement tools and seek new...

A bipartisan group of U.S. representativesintroduceda bill Nov. 28 that would ban fees on electronic healthcare payments that cost hospitals millions of dollars. The No Fees for EFTs Act would outlaw payers from tacking on fees for providers to be reimbursed electronically. The ACA required payers to offer electronic payments to providers, but payers and middlemen charge as much as 5% for the...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule Monday that outlines requirements to combat predatory MA marketing payment practices and improve access to behavioral health care as well as the inclusion of an expert in health equity on health plan utilization management committees to curb prior authorization rates.

The Biden administration Thursday finalized policy changes for Medicare reimbursements in 2024 that will cut payments to physicians by 1.25% compared to 2023. The2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule ruleincludes a 3.34% decrease to the fee schedule's conversion factor, which is used to calculate Medicare payouts to docs. 

Some hospital leaders are optimistic that artificial intelligence could liberate their clinicians from hours of administrative work and return them to the bedside. Even with healthcare wage inflation showing signs of slowing down, a Fitch report found that the sector's high rate of quitting and continued reliance on contract labor could continue to put stress on the labor market. More than half of nurses are...